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Liam Gillick

As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate.

Art, Clear, Idea, Ideas, Market, Price
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I think when people struggle with the problem of trying to understand the art world as an idea, they misunderstand it. They think it's a world of visionaries or opportunists. But it also includes people who want to take part in this cultural exercise but don't have the required stuff, they don't have the ideas or the production.

Art, Exercise, People, Problem, Struggle, Visionaries

People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there was a new configuration of bourgeois values in the U. S. and an acceptance among the bourgeoisie of contemporary art as an idea. I think that bourgeois people are horrible.

Acceptance, Art, Bourgeois, Configuration, Thinking

What people in the U. S. have to understand is that there is sometimes a deep political content in my work that's rooted in the postwar reconfiguration in Europe. I'm still a foreigner in America. I'm someone who's bringing nuanced stories from somewhere else that will always be harder to take.

America, Europe, Foreigner, Reconfiguration, Somewhere Else, Understand

No one born in the 1950s took much interest in my generation, and all we've done is try to fix it by talking to the people who came after us. I don't hang out with anyone who is 10 years older than I am, but I hang out with a lot of people who are 10 years younger.

Done, Fix, People, Talking, Years

"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and then coming down. I'm not sure who will come up with a better term to describe art, but I think contemporary art is actually done for.

Art, Coming, Contemporary, Think, Thinking, Wall
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